Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
A while back I wrote this blog post explaining how to use Chrome’s native Task Manager to find out which Chrome processes could be causing the browser to operate slower than it should.
That post received a lot of engagement, and several readers contacted me to ask if there is a native Task Manager built in to other browsers as well.
I answered those folks directly, but since I keep getting this same question I thought it might be a good idea to write a similar post to answer it on the blog.
In a nutshell, the answer is yes. All the major browsers do indeed have their own native Task Managers that work almost exactly like the one in Chrome, and you open them the same way…
To open the built-in Task Manager in Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and just about any minor browser that’s out there, just press the Shift+Esc key combination. The Task Manager will pop right up.
You can now examine each of the browser’s processes to see if one of them is using an excessive amount of resources, which would indicate there’s probably an issue of some type with that particular process.
Bottom line: If you ever need to troubleshoot a slow-running web browser the native Task Manager can be a big help. And now you know how to open in it all the major browsers.